FoxTrot by Bill Amend for February 07, 2010
January 31, 2010
February 14, 2010
Transcript:
Jason: My queen has line of sight on your knight. Marcus: Roll for initiative. I got six. Jason: Rats. I got four. Marcus: My knight avoids your queen by moving to this space behind a pawn. Jason: Roll to see if you trigger a trap. Marcus: Crud. I rolled a one. Jason: The square was booby-trapped with poison gas! Your knight takes (roll roll) twelve damage! Marcus: He's dead. Can my bishop resurrect him? Jason: You didn't train that spell, remember? You gave your bishops rank-two kind decursing. Marcus: Did I really? I'm so stupid. Paige: Norman chess isn't nerdy enough? Jason: Is anything, really? Marcus: Oh, wait - my knight had a cloak of poison protection! Woohoo!
This is real. I own a deck of cards called Knightmare Chess. You use them in conjunction with a normal chess game to introduce various changes to the rules, some temporary, some permanent - for example, there’s a card that lets you cause one of your Knights to explode, capturing everything that it was threatening;l or there’s the card that causes all pawns to move backward for the rest of the game.